[TxMt] Re: Alternate to arrow keys for moving cursor left/right?

Martin Kühl martin.kuehl at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 15:45:39 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 17:39, Morgan Packard <morgan at morganpackard.com> wrote:
> I've realized I waste many precious milliseconds lifting my fingers up from
> their homes over to the arrow keys. Is there a key combination which will
> move the cursor left and right for me? How would I go about setting one up?

There is support for the standard emacs-like keys: C-f and C-b move
the cursor to the right and left, respectively.
For binding your own keys in TextMate, you could create a macro of the
cursor motion you want. For binding such a thing (almost) system-wide,
see this introduction:
<http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html>

HTH,
Martin



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